Burning Sands - Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall

Grosset & Dunlap

Publishers New York

Made in the United States of America

By Dodd, Mead And Company, Inc.

Printed in U. S. A.

[CHAPTER I—A STUDY IN BEHAVIOUR]
[CHAPTER II—THE FREEDOM OF THE DESERT]
[CHAPTER III—THE WORLD AND THE FLESH]
[CHAPTER IV—A JACKAL IN A VILLAGE]
[CHAPTER V—FAMILY AFFAIRS]
[CHAPTER VI—TOWARDS THE SUNSET]
[CHAPTER VII—THE DESERT AND THE CITY]
[CHAPTER VIII—THE ACCOMPLICE]
[CHAPTER IX—ON THE NILE]
[CHAPTER X—“FOR TOMORROW WE DIE”]
[CHAPTER XI—THE OASIS IN THE DESERT]
[CHAPTER XII—THE HELPMATE]
[CHAPTER XIII—THE NEW LIFE]
[CHAPTER XIV—THE COURT PHILOSOPHER]
[CHAPTER XV—A BALL AT THE GENERAL’S]
[CHAPTER XVI—AT CHRISTMASTIDE]
[CHAPTER XVII—DESTINY]
[CHAPTER XVIII—MAN AND WOMAN]
[CHAPTER XIX—THE SEEDS OF SORROW]
[CHAPTER XX—PRIVATE INTERESTS]
[CHAPTER XXI—THE CLASH]
[CHAPTER XXII—THE CALL OF THE DESERT]
[CHAPTER XXIII—THE NATURE OF WOMEN]
[CHAPTER XXIV—THE GREAT ADVENTURE]
[CHAPTER XXV—BREAKING LOOSE]
[CHAPTER XXVI—THE STOLEN HOUR]
[CHAPTER XXVII—THE FLIGHT]
[CHAPTER XXVIII—THE SURPRISING FORTNIGHT]
[CHAPTER XXIX—IN THE PRESENCE OF DEATH]
[CHAPTER XXX—THE REVOLT]
[CHAPTER XXXI—PAYING THE PRICE]
[CHAPTER XXXII—THINKING THINGS OVER]
[CHAPTER XXXIII—THE RETURN]

[CHAPTER I—A STUDY IN BEHAVIOUR]

The music ceased. For a full minute the many dancers stood as the dance had left them, stranded, so to speak, upon the polished floor of the ballroom, clapping their white-gloved hands in what seemed to be an appeal to the tired musicians to release them from their awkward situation. The chef d’orchestre rose from his chair and shook his head, pointing to the beads of moisture upon his sallow forehead. Two or three couples, more merciful than their companions, turned and walked away; and therewith the whole company ceased their vain clapping, and, as though awakened from an hypnotic seizure, hastened to jam themselves into the heated, chattering mass which moved out of the brilliantly lighted room and dispersed into the shadows of the halls and passages beyond.

Contents

[CHAPTER I—A STUDY IN BEHAVIOUR]